Death Wish Coffee vs Intelligentsia Coffee

High-caffeine arabica and robusta blends, organic and Fair Trade certified

Drinkers who want a named farm, a published process and a roaster that has been doing direct trade since before it was a marketing word

• +Six origins named across the range: India, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Ethiopia and Indonesia
• +Organic and Fair Trade on the unflavoured blends, with a published caffeine figure at a stated brewing ratio
• +Four coffees reviewed, covering medium and dark plus a flavoured line

• −No roast date is printed on any bag
• −No farm or cooperative is named on any coffee in the range
• −The medium roast publishes no origin at all, where the dark roast names five countries

• +Nineteen coffees reviewed, the deepest range on this site, plus two gift sets
• +Twelve origins named including Brazil, Ethiopia, Kenya, Costa Rica and Guatemala
• +Three roast levels from medium-light to medium-dark, in ground and whole bean, with a subscription
• +A published price per kilo from $42.55, so the range can be compared

• −No roast date is printed, which is unusual for a specialty roaster at this level
• −$42.55 to $126.26 a kilo is a wide spread with little to explain it on the listings
• −Six of its instant and single-origin coffees publish no tasting notes at all